Welcome back or welcome to the Single Track podcast.

Danny Marino is a professional trail runner for Hoka and Rabbit based in Mammoth Lakes, California.

In 2021, she placed fifth overall at the Solomon Golden Trail series over in Europe.

In previous year, she's been a U.S. Sky Running champion and a multi-time

Xtera champion as well. She recently came on my radar, but clearly she is one of the best

runners in our sport period. In this episode, we talk about her experience with burnout as a college

runner, how she found trails soon after, and then, of course,

sub- Ultra racing. We dig into the Santa Barbara and Mammoth Lakes trail scenes,

with which she is very familiar with. We dig into those experiences racing, the Golden

Trail Series circuit in Europe, her partnerships with Hoka and Rabbit, and much more.

Danny drops a lot of insight in this one. I'm excited for you to listen to it. One thing to note,

in the second half of the conversation, some of the audio is a little spotty. Danny was dealing

with historic snowstorm in Mammoth Lakes at time of recording. So we apologize there,

but the content is great. Otherwise, let's get started. Okay, Danny Marino. Welcome to the

single track podcast. Thanks for having me. I appreciate it. So we were talking offline,

and I admitted that you just recently came on my radar.

And I went and did my research, and you'd been on the Ultra Runner podcast a couple of years back.

After listening to that episode, I was fascinated.

You've had a ton of success at the sub ultra trail distance in particular, and maybe we can dive in there.

I'm curious what your

trail running origin story is. Yeah. So I came from like a cross country track and field background.

I did that in high school, a little bit of middle schooling. Everyone kind of does that.

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